Sentences with phrase «voting changed anything»

As the saying goes, if voting changed anything they wouldn't let you do it.

The saying that «if voting changed anything they would abolish it» rings all too true today in Britain's highly centralised system of government, where so many decisions are made by those who were not elected and can not be removed.

Not exact matches

If nothing ever changed and we listened to every time that the bible or anything else was used to say let's stay the same — women would not have the vote, there would be no equality of the races, we would still be burning witches.

In theory, they say they are pro-life to get the evangelical vote but, in practice, they have done NOTHING over the last 30 years to change anything.

In the cutthroat world of F1 teams will do pretty much anything to gain even the tiniest advantage over each other, whether it's by pestering stewards for a rival to get a penalty, or voting for rule changes which benefit themselves over the greater good.

Brandon also reiterated that anything the Con Con produces would go back to the voters for a statewide up - or - down vote, so a majority of New Yorkers can reject any destructive changes.

The government insists that the vote doesn't change anything.

Considering that the choice of voting system to the most powerful legislature in the country is of fundamental importance to the very fabric of society, I believe that, if there is anything close to a majority of the electorate in favour of changing the voting system, whether that be to PR or not, then the question must be put to the electorate.

If we keep making the same choices at the voting booth, how will anything ever change?

What was discovered of note was that if you changed the voting system to open list, or indeed anything candidate based as a form of voting, UKIP went down six points and the Tories up five — meaning the Conservatives would then leapfrog UKIP into second, just barely behind Labour.

Last night a spokesman for Jeremy's leadership campaign, said:» This result clearly shows that there is a desire for real and genuine change in our party under the continued leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, but we are not going to take anything for granted and we will be campaigning for every vote in the leadership contest.»

And ii) Trump as President really could happen (for much the same reasons as the Brexit vote), but now the market (like the GOP) already seems to be moving on to bargaining (& acceptance)... And anyway, a) East Coast - West Coast shame at the idea of a Trump presidency shouldn't precipitate an actual market decline, b) a President who likely ends up isolated from Congress is sure to be pretty ineffectual (as Obama's proved), c) if Trump manages to get anything done, it would probably be stimulative for the market, and d) if Hillary wins... yawn, plus ca change!

I understand the complaints about the price as saying they need to change bout time this comes out but for the most part the complaints are like PS now is a rip off from people like AutoCad now if they keep the price yea it can be a rip off but to not even wait to see if they keep this price structure and just flat out call it a rip off or a failure is premature and unwarranted it's people like that who ruin it and cause some people to never even try it out because they think these prices are real when it is a test and people voting with their wallets buy not renting these games in the beta will get the point across not crying about it on random websites cause I can bet that Sony will take notice from the people who are not renting anything before they listen to the cry babies and if you are going to complain go to the Sony blog and let them know there that is the only place they are going to check peoples reactions so crying on N4G is just a waste of time.

That slowly changed and now it's nothing but PS4 fanboys circle jerking each other and down voting anything they dislike.

It also needs a MUCH simplified version that everyone can use to write to their MP, as (i) they won't read anything this long, and (ii) they likely voted for the Climate Change Act, so need something that's so easy to understand, even they can not fail to.

Regardless, the Salby and the Spash cases provide an excellent opportunity for those of you who believe anything much is going to change under a Coalition government, to prove your point to us heathen unbelievers who are planning to vote for Themm this election.

And while millennials may not believe that voting on a ballot will change anything, they do believe that voting with their dollar will — just look at the Chick - fil - A boycott.

Getting the miners to agree to run code is the real challenge, as they have invested huge amounts of capital and will not readily agree to change anything which may harm their mining rewards — «The turkeys won't vote for Christmas».

If you were to change anything, I would vote for a few more recipes now and then.

The so - called «doctors» changed their minds without providing a reason!!!!! — I voted «Yes» on Facebook but is there anything else I can do?